Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 13:57:00 01/17/01
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Major Snip! >>http://www.intel.com/eBusiness/products/ia64/faqs/ > >Again, this seems to indicate binary compatablility with IA32 instructions >Terry, but I am still wondering if you have to be in some sort of IA32 mode or >if you can just execute the instructions while in IA32 mode. Intel has always >maintained hardware instruction compatability with previous generations and I >would hope that IA32 code could use IA64 instructions and registers without >doing some sort of mode switch or incurring clock cycle penalties. > >Larry. I'm also interested in the Itanium Processor, as far as IA32/64 compatability goes. But don't know too much in this area. However, I hope these Intel links help. Terry http://www.intel.com/design/ia-64/index.htm http://www.intel.com/design/ia-64/itanium.htm http://www.intel.com/design/ia-64/microarch_ovw/index.htm http://www.intel.com/design/ia-64/microarch_ovw/sld020.htm
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